Research › Search › Judgment

Allahabad High Court · body

2025 DAILYLAW 173958 (ALL)

RANDHIR @ PRADEEP v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO.

BAIL/10041/2024 · 2025-11-07

Pankaj Bhatia

body2025

Judgment text

Extracted from the PDF above. The PDF is authoritative.

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10041 of 2024 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard Miss. Bina Kumari Bajpai, learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.415 of 2022, under Sections 498A, 304B IPC and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Safipur, District Unnao. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was enticed by the applicant and thereafter married. Subsequently, the entire matrimonial family had killed for dowry. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, could not be ascertained and the viscera was preserved. The applicant is the husband of the deceased. Subsequently, the informant has not supported the prosecution case as is evident from the supplementary affidavit. The co-accused have been enlarged on bail vide orders annexed with the supplementary affidavit dated 06.08.2025. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the fact that the informant has been declared hostile and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 13.02.2023, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Randhir @ Pradeep be released on bail in the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sanandan Kumar Misra, Bina Kumari Bajpai Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Randhir @ Pradeep .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) abovesaid first information report number on his furnishing personal bonds and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions: (a) The applicant shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings; (b) The applicant shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which he is accused or suspected of the commission; and (c) The applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. November 7, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 10041 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench